Welcome
Welcome to the course Privacy Basics for Researchers. This course is meant for researchers, students and staff who are working, or will be working, with personal data in a research context.
Course content
In this course, you will learn about:
- What is (sensitive) personal data?
- Roles in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Legal bases for research (consent, public interest)
- Rights of data subjects
- Privacy risks
- Protection measures like pseudonymisation, anonymisation, encryption, and access control
- How to store and share personal data
- How to make personal data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR)
Format
This course is online and you can do it in your own time, at your own pace, any time, and any place you like. It will take you about 1.5 hours in total to go through the course.
Feedback
To improve and further develop this course, we would love to hear your feedback. We hope you will take 5 minutes to evaluate the course and let us know how you have experienced this online training.
Support
This course has been developed by the library team of Research Data Management Support in close cooperation with privacy officers and data stewards at Utrecht University. If you have questions or feedback about this course, please contact info.rdm@uu.nl.
Enjoy the course. We hope this knowledge will help you in your research, and we look forward to your feedback.
Research Data Management Support